Hi Gabe,yes I too suffer from those horrid things.i am 45 now and mine actually started like the second I hit puberty at 13.i have used Midrin now since it was first invented.It was wonderful to be able actually function within like 45 minutes vs the sometimes two full days that were the norm as there was nothing actually availiable except narcotics that really did not work at all,and did absolutely squat for the freaky aura that was there constantly too.are you aware of any actual migrane 'triggers"?i was able to cut the amount of actual migranes I was having way back when after keeping a food diary for about six months.In that time(and these were things that had never ever bothered me before in the past at all,and I don't have a clue just why they all of the sudden started to trigger my migranes)I found that peanut butter(something i ate all the time and practically lived on during my first pregnancy)red wine,italian sausage and certain foods or drinks that had some sort of a red dye that i am somehow now sensitive to were all huge triggers for me.the really strange thing though is that I don't get the actual migrane til the next day after ingesting one of these things.never on the day I ate them or ingested them only the next day and usually right around noon.
I had gotten them down from getting them about ten to fifteen times a month when they first started to now only maybe one a year,but for some reason(i think it actually may be due to menapause,yippie)i have gotten five or six of them just over the past six months.I think these ones are due to hormone fluctuations.
i am also going to be having one on thursday(nice to know ahead of time)as I am having an angiogram to determine just what options are availiable to try and treat my newest nightmare,an aneurysm that is currently residing deep under my brain in the superior cerebellar artery,right up against my brainstem.Oh joy!the last time I had had an angio done to determine whether or not this glob of crap that was inside of my spinal cord was an AVM or cavernoma,when the IR shot the dye into some specific area of my brain,it actually triggered an immediate migrane that was just beyond hidious and lasted the entire day as I could not take my midrin for it.The hosp also let me lie in one of their hospital beds for that 'required four hours of lying flat?"without bothering to actually treat the horrid pain that was exploding inside of my head as the IR had to leave to go to another hosp so he could not write anything for my pain.it was just horrible.I have taken steps THIS time for my overall pain control and also any possible migrane.I am hoping that this time I will not get the migrane but who knows.at least this time,I have planned ahead for all possible scenerios and am just hoping that the IR will tell me that this aneurysm is actually coilable or this is really really going to suck,big time.So far,the little SOB is at 3x5mms.but since i suffer from polycystic kidney disease,i also have much weaker vessel walls(for some reason,all PKD sufferers also will be born with weaker vessel walls) and my chances of having a spontaneous rupture even from one this small,are much higher than the norm for 'normal" people.
gosh,I am so sorry Gabe for rambling on on your thread,this obviously is all my mind keeps on thinking about lately.how often do you actually get migranes and have you connected them with any specific triggers,like food?Marcia
Having a few bad days here with migraines
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